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Strategy: Measurement of Student Progress

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Measurement of Student Progress

What is it?

One of the challenges of online teaching and learning is the difference in the nature of peer-to-peer interaction and the interaction between teachers and students. This interaction can be documented and recorded manually but learning management systems also provide the capacity to measure the behavioural nature of student interaction with learning materials, activities and assessment tasks. The design of your vUWS site is obviously important to reflect the type of interactions that you hope to capture but this set of resources provides a start to help you track your students’ progress. Learn more about Learning Analytics below.

Associated Learning Theories

  • Learning analytics

Learning analytics is a practice and it combines several areas:

  • The collection and recording of data (typically from a learning management system).
  • The analysis and interpretation of data with a view to how it can be used to optimise learning environments.
  • The intentional design of learning activities to capture students’ behavioural and cognitive engagement in the learning process.

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